Starfield

Starfield is a single-player action role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and set in an open-world space environment. Players create a customizable character and explore a region of the Milky Way galaxy spanning approximately 50 light-years, landing on over 1,000 planets with procedurally generated landscapes. Gameplay includes first-person and third-person combat using firearms, explosives, and melee weapons, as well as spaceship construction, outpost building, resource gathering, and crafting. Players recruit companion characters, join factions, and progress through skill trees spanning Physical, Social, Combat, Science, and Tech categories.

Below are the four PC tiers we'd actually recommend for Starfield today. These are our 2026 hardware picks, not the dated publisher minimums you'll find on Steam.

Official system requirements

These are the minimum and recommended specs as published by Bethesda Softworks on Steam. They tend to be conservative — usually "what ran the game at 1080p when it shipped". For what you should actually buy in 2026, see the tier cards above.

Verified 16 July 2026 against the Steam store page.

Can your PC run Starfield?

If your CPU is roughly equivalent to AMD Ryzen 5 3600X, Intel i5-10600K and your GPU is at or above AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080, you'll hit recommended settings at 1080p/60. For 1440p or higher, see the tier picks above.

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